Schools left to drown in red tape
ADDING another level of bureaucracy at national level is not what our students need.
Education
Crashing through racial intolerance
NINE years ago, a Jewish girl was walking home from school in Sydney when a busload of students began shouting racist slurs.
United Voice role a snub: teachers
THE childhood teachers union has written to Julia Gillard asking her to axe a decision by School Education Minister Peter Garrett.
For schools, the future is in Asia
THE education system will have to start taking our near neighbours seriously.
Independent schools sound funds alarm
THE non-government school sector has raised several key complaints with Labor over its proposed overhaul of school funding.
Labor to slash red-tape burden
THE government admits compliance costs are too high.
Cash rules harden Gonski opposition
PROPOSALS to enshrine wide-ranging formulas in law for the Gonski education reform is hardening opposition to Labor’s plan.
Labor U-turn on university regulation
THE Gillard government will deregulate high-performing universities, in a policy U-turn to be announced this morning.
Why the Dickens is money the answer?
THE ALP used to be wise to tricks of the education union.
NT school review to target failing programs
THE first major review of indigenous education in the NT in years will ask why the billions spent have failed to lift school results.
PM counts on Gonski momentum
JULIA Gillard will use the expected rapid-fire signing of Labor-led governments to its school funding reforms to pressure Coalition states to join.
Garrett can’t put sum on year one Gonski
PETER Garrett is unable to put a figure on how much money Catholic and independent schools will receive in the first year of the Gonski reforms.
Family of achievers inspires student
AT just 15 years old, Jayde Hagan announced she was off to boarding school.
Gonski deal ‘too good to ignore’
THE NSW government has rejected criticism it had been “conned” in signing up to the federal government’s school funding model.
Reform omits teacher review
THE explicit requirement that teachers undergo annual reviews of their performance has been omitted from the education reform agreement.
Schools unite to take on Gonski
INDEPENDENT schools have struck out against the Gillard government’s proposed Gonski education funding changes.
Tasmania to fund Gonski reforms
Tasmania has committed to funding the Gonski reforms in its budget, despite Lara Giddings’s insistence she has not yet formally agreed to any deal.
Independent schools question PM’s sums
RUBBERY numbers in the budget are the last straw for non-government institutions.
Catholic ire over Gonski forecasts
The Catholic Education Commission has strongly objected to the proposed Gonski funding changes because they use “poor or imprecise measures”.
Gillard ‘rewriting’ Gonski brief
THE PM’s attempt to paint debate about schools standards as a “distraction” was a tactical play to rewrite the original Gonski review panel brief.
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